Cinerama Holiday

Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple traveling in Europe and a European couple traveling in the United States. Like all of the original Cinerama productions, the emphasis is on spectacle and scenery. The European sequences, for example, include a point-of-view bobsled ride, while the U.S. sequences include a point-of-view landing on an aircraft carrier.

Cinerama Holiday
Directed byRobert L. Bendick
Philippe De Lacy
Music byMorton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave
CinematographyJoseph C. Brun
Harry Squire
Edited byJack McCay
Fredrick Y. Smith
Les Zackling
Distributed byCinerama Releasing Corporation
Release date
February 8, 1955
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$29.6 million [1]

The film was a huge success at the box office, earning $10 million in domestic rentals[2] (equivalent to $95,440,994 in 2019) and becoming the highest grossing film of 1955 in the United States, beating out other hugely successful movies such as Mister Roberts, Battle Cry and Oklahoma!.

Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives.[3]

References
  1. Klady, Leonard (March 27, 1995). "Realistic Grosses". Variety. p. 10.
  2. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  3. Cinerama: Holiday Blu-ray

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